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Accessory Cases iPad iPhone iPhone 6

Review: SurfacePad for iPhone 6 and iPad

Some people use cases on their iPhones, some people don’t. If you’re in the second group I’m going to give you reason to consider a case. While purists don’t want to cover the iPhone 6’s smooth, elegant curves, it’s easy to scratch its beautiful retina display (and aluminum back) while bouncing around in a pocket, bag or […]

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Accessory iPhone 6

Review: mPact Glass Extreme Screen Protection for the iPhone 6

Ever since I can remember I’ve installed a screen film on the front of my iPhone. I’m rough on my electronics and iPhone screens take a lot of abuse. My iPhone is a tool and I treat it like the utility that it is. While it’s a rather expensive (and fragile) tool, it gets tossed into some […]

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Google VOIP

How to get a free landline phone using Google Voice

I’ve previously written about the OBi100 from ObiHai, it’s a cool Voice Over IP (VOIP) device turns your Internet connection into a traditional telephone line, complete with dial tone. I can almost hear you saying, “I cut the cord a long time ago, what on earth do a I need a landline telephone for?” As it […]

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4K Apple Hardware Mac mini Television UHD Yosmite

The Mac mini’s Intel GPU won’t cut it as a 4K media center

I purchased a Samsung 4K television (a UN65F9000) for our family room and was super-excited to buy a late-2014 Mac mini (Macmini7,1, model A1347) to complete our entertainment center. The problem is that the Mac mini’s anemic GPU can’t drive a 4K display at a fast enough refresh rate to play smooth video, which is a bummer. I’ve used a Mac mini connected to a […]

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OS X security

Apple patches Shellshock vulnerability, but it’s not in Software Update

Apple released OS X bash Update 1.0 for OS X Mavericks to fix a vulnerability in the bash UNIX shell. “Shellshock” is believed to be much worse than the Heartbleed vulnerability that was discovered earlier this year. PC Magazine wrote about two scenarios that can make OS X vulnerable to the Shellshock bash bug: For example, Bash […]